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17 May 2012, 1:30 pm
The Fair Sentencing Act was passed almost immediately thereafter, on August 3, 2010. [read post]
12 Jun 2012, 1:49 pm
Charles Smith used a Euclid residence to sell, process, and store cocaine and crack cocaine, according to the indictment. [read post]
12 Jun 2012, 1:49 pm
Charles Smith used a Euclid residence to sell, process, and store cocaine and crack cocaine, according to the indictment. [read post]
7 Apr 2021, 6:18 am
Eligibility for a Reduced Sentence under the First Step Act At the time the defendant was sentenced, crimes involving crack cocaine were treated more harshly than those related to powder cocaine. [read post]
11 Jan 2019, 3:50 pm
Fair Sentencing Act Reforms for Crack Cocaine The First Step Act has amended provisions of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010. [read post]
12 Apr 2007, 6:29 am
Reginald Ragland was sentenced in his possession of over 5 grams of crack cocaine case to 300 months as a career offender. [read post]
22 Apr 2012, 2:35 pm
In Austin, the Ninth (following a fractured Supreme Court), denies relief to a defendant seeking a reduced sentence under the Fair Sentencing Act (the legislation that reduced the unfair and disparate sentences for crack cocaine). [read post]
27 Jun 2022, 7:28 am
The Act allows a district court to impose a reduced sentence “as if ” the revised penalties for crack cocaine enacted in the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 were in effect at the time the offense was committed. [read post]
2 Jun 2011, 8:06 am
In order to implement the FSA, the United States Sentencing Commission (the independent agency responsible for setting sentencing policies for the federal courts) has restructured the federal sentencing guidelines to decrease the disparity between mandatory minimum sentences for certain quantities of crack and powder cocaine and to eliminate mandatory minimum sentences for possession of small amounts of crack … [read post]
5 Dec 2013, 2:30 pm
In other words, when a post-Fair Sentencing Act sentencing court properly has before it the calculation of a sentence, the court should use the Fair Sentencing Act minimums [read post]
3 Feb 2012, 2:43 pm
Last year, the commission recommended that the new, fairer sentencing guidelines for crack cocaine offenses established by the Fair Sentencing Act (FSA) should be applied retroactively to people sentenced before the FSA was passed. [read post]
8 Sep 2013, 8:28 am
In 2010, Congress passed the Fair Sentencing Act (FSA) that lowered Dunn’s crack guidelines to 77-96 months. [read post]
16 Dec 2013, 10:22 am
Legislatively, the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 is a bipartisan rejection of the unwarranted disparity between crack and powder sentences. [read post]
11 Dec 2013, 10:46 am
Sentencing Commission's retroactive application of the new crack cocaine sentencing guidelines. [read post]
1 Apr 2011, 11:26 am
The Fairness in Sentencing Act of 2010 reduced the dubious 100:1 powder/crack ratio to a 17.8:1 ratio. [read post]
16 Oct 2012, 11:42 am
§ 3582(c)(2), based on the amended crack cocaine guidelines implementing the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010. [read post]
Concepcion v. United States Affirms District Court’s Broad Discretion in Deciding Criminal Sentences
30 Jun 2022, 6:24 am
Among its provisions is one allowing for resentencing of persons convicted before 2010 for distribution of crack cocaine who had been ineligible for resentencing when Congress in 2010 revised downward the penalties for crack cocaine (in the so-called Fair Sentencing Act). [read post]
4 Apr 2013, 4:12 pm
Augustine, No. 12-50061 (04-03-13) (Hurwitz with Callahan and Ikuta)In the Fair Sentencing Act, Congress finally addressed, somewhat, the inequitable disparity between the sentences for crack and the sentences for powder cocaine. [read post]
4 Nov 2011, 2:16 pm
How many people stand to have their sentences reduced beginning this week as a result of the reduction in the racially biased crack-cocaine sentencing disparity? [read post]
4 Mar 2009, 4:23 pm
These proposed Bills include: H.R. 5035, the Fairness in Cocaine Sentencing Act of 2008: Eliminates mandatory minimums for cocaine offenses. [read post]
